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Between the Covers at Covered Treasures Bookstore Ring in the New Year with a Book

By the staff at Covered Treasures

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day..” …Edith Lovejoy Pierce

The new year is a wonderful time to focus on health and self-care or to find inspiration. Take a look at these titles for 2025.

The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog

By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale) $12

With its mushroom hat and endless collection of fabulous footwear, this adorable amphibian is here to be your new best friend. Whether you need an emotional boost, some friendly encouragement or an honest view on the world, the little frog will be your guide.

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

By Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu (Avery Publishing Group) $28

In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama’s home to celebrate His Holiness’s 80th birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

By James Clear (Avery Publishing Group) $27

Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for providing practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. The author draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking

By Caroline Chambers (Union Square & Co.) $35

This book is brimming with efficient recipes that take the guesswork out of dinner. The recipes are organized by the amount of time they take to cook, so whether you have 15 minutes to throw together something or a little bit more time on your hands, dinnertime is totally doable. Most importantly, these recipes include swaps, tips, shortcuts, and more to be sure they work best for you, helping you save money, improvise, and even learn a thing or two.

Priceless Facts about Money (Mellody on Money)

By Mellody Hobson (Candlewick Press) $20

This fun children’s book sheds a friendly light on a daunting subject, from the meteorites that created the first mineral deposits to the ancient Maya who used chocolate as currency to the beginnings of the banking system itself. Readers learn about bartering, profit and loss, the origins of credit, ATMs, and even fun facts about money around the world.

The Art of Active Listening: How People at Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood

By Heather R. Younger (Berrett-Koehler Publishing) $22

When employees, colleagues, and customers are not being heard, organizational culture, employee happiness, and overall organizational success will suffer. How well do you listen? Active listening is the doorway to increased belonging, loyalty, profitability, innovation, and so much more. It is the difference between thinking we understand what people want and knowing what they want. Want to build stronger relationships, avoid misunderstandings, and anticipate problems before they surface at work?

Red Birds in a Tree

By Valerie Shereck (Austin Macauley) $8

Red Birds in a Tree is a collection of poems written, over a span of many years, about a woman as she moves her way through life. It is about love, loss, sorrow, nature, beauty, aging, resilience, joy, family, and relationships. The broad range of topics in this thought-provoking collection by a Colorado author will appeal to many readers.

Stretching: 40th Anniversary Edition

By Bob Anderson (Shelter Publications) $27.99

Local author Bob Anderson’s book is always worth revisiting at the start of a new year. The benefits of stretching are bountiful, from increased blood flow and better range of motion to improved physical performance and decreased risk of injury. Step-by-step illustrations make this book user-friendly, and the section titled “Stretches for the Digital World” presents stretches for people using mobile phones and/or computers, as well as tips for better posture and stretches to do in an office environment.

Until next month, happy reading.

The staff at Covered Treasures can be reached at books@ocn.me.

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